Re: Re: Negative string offset support

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:29, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > Yeah, I also thought the word "need" is a bit strong :) It's more like > > "syntactic sugar which is nice-to-have" > > As I just told Ilia on IRC, I think we should not add this (now) for a > couple of reasons: > > - Adding new language constructs in mini releases is IMO not the way to > go as it will make it possible impossible to run script that use this > new construct not even parse on PHP 5.0.x servers. Adding normal new > functions does not have this problem of course, as those scripts are > still parsable. BTW, I agree with the above argument... not that my agreeing or disagreeing counts for much :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'